Coded Bias

Coded Bias

86 mins | Documentary | Nov. 11, 2020

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

Coded Bias

86 mins | Documentary | Nov. 11, 2020

Coded Bias
Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Independent Television Service (ITVS), Women Make Movies, Chicken And Egg Pictures, Independent Lens, Sundance Institute Documentary Fund, JustFilms / Ford Foundation, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Production Grant, 7th Empire Media
Original title Coded Bias
Directors Shalini Kantayya
Writers Shalini Kantayya

Cast

Joy Buolamwini

as Herself

Cathy O'Neil

as Herself

Meredith Broussard

as Herself

Silkie Carlo

as Herself

Virginia Eubanks

as Herself

Ravi Naik

as Himself

Safiya Umoja Noble

as Herself

Zeynep Tufekci

as Herself